Globalization and Uneven Territories

📋 Course Outline

1. Globalization and uneven territories
2. Expanded Triad and emerging powers
3. Maritime facades and global trade
4. Borders, free trade and protectionism
5. Global metropolises and world cities
6. Southern countries in globalization
7. National territorial inequalities
8. Shrinking cities and deindustrialization
9. Urban fragmentation and local inequalities

📖 1. Globalization and uneven territories

🔑 Key Concepts & Definitions

• Territory: Territory is an appropriated space shaped and used by human actions, and it is not limited to states.
• Globalization: Globalization is a long-term process that links territories worldwide through economic, cultural, and human flows.
• Territorial inequalities: Territorial inequalities are gaps in how places benefit from globalization, producing uneven inclusion across space.
• Selective integration: Selective integration is when some territories participate in globalization while others are only partially connected to its flows.

📝 Essential Points

• Globalization integrates territories unevenly rather than uniformly across the world.
• A limited set of highly connected and powerful spaces functions as engines of global integration while others are marginalized.
• Marginal territories may experience exclusion, dependency, or selective integration that reinforces inequalities.

💡 Memory Hook

Unevenness is structural: few engines connect; many places ride the margins.